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The Trainee Teacher Support System: an expert system for advising trainee teachers on their classroom practice.
Author(s) -
Wood Sharon
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
expert systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1468-0394
pISSN - 0266-4720
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0394.1988.tb00348.x
Subject(s) - tutor , computer science , knowledge base , domain (mathematical analysis) , expert system , mathematics education , work (physics) , psychology , artificial intelligence , mathematical analysis , mathematics , programming language , mechanical engineering , engineering
The Trainee Teacher Support System (TTSS) is a computer based advisory system for trainee teachers. Development work, in the form of a feasibility study, has been conducted over the past three years. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the application of expert systems technology and artificial intelligence techniques to the formalisation of experienced teachers’ knowledge of classroom practice. The domain chosen is that of the school based ‘teacher‐tutor’, responsible for guiding and advising the trainee teacher. The TTSS embodies a model of processes which underly classroom events. It has a knowledge base of rules, accumulates a database of facts and has a rule implementation program. It is undergoing continued development in order to capture the teacher‐tutor's understanding of classroom dynamics on a finer timescale.